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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 47 | Thursday April 1, 2010
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
14 · Classifieds
17 · Crossword
20 · Sports
Tryout: 15 USC football players
performed drills in front of NFL
scouts Wednesday. PAGE 20
Housing guide: Still need a place to live next
year? Check out the Daily Trojan’s housing guide for
answers to all your housing questions. PAGE S1
Speaking out
Members of USC’s MenCARE spoke about sexual violence at the Take Back the Night rally held on McCarthy Quad on Wednesday.
The event was aimed at spreading awareness of sexual violence and sexual assault. Various campus groups spoke during the event,
and the presentations were followed by a campus march. Wednesday’s rally was the highlight of a weeklong awareness campaign.
Sunil Murali | Daily Trojan
By jacqueline kurth
Daily Trojan
A program that many community college transfers
say was vital to their USC experience is now on the
chopping block, another victim of the tough economy.
For four years, the SCholars Program at USC has
helped bring community college transfers to the uni-versity
and integrate them into USC life. But the pro-gram’s
funding, which came from a $1 million grant
from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, has run dry.
Organizers searched extensively for a solution but
found only dead ends. Now, they have announced the
end of the SCholars Program.
“We have tried just about every angle and unfortu-nately,
because of the economy and other factors, we
will not be able to continue as of August 2010,” said Judi
Garbuio, associate dean of Academic Recognition and
Scholars Programs..
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation gave USC the grant
in 2006 to establish the SCholars Program. It was de-signed
to help first-generation and low-income stu-dents
transfer to a four-year university by providing
programs to introduce them to the curriculum, as well
as to pay for the additional academic costs of attend-ing
USC.
USC began looking for another source of funding
Money issues
force SCholars
program to fold
Those in charge of the program could not find
another source of funding to keep SCholars alive.
| see SCholars, page 6 |
By natalie chau
Daily Trojan
In an effort to increase efficiency and
cater health care more toward students,
USC has decided to switch its student
health insurance plan from Anthem Blue
Cross to Aetna Student Health insurance
beginning in the fall.
All students at USC are required to have
health insurance, but those who can show
proof they have other insurance do not
have to get insured through the university.
Student health insurance at USC is of-fered
through a third-party health in-surance
provider, and officials at the
University Park Health Center re-examine
the university’s health insurance plan ev-ery
five or six years, according to Cathy
DeFrancesco, senior clinical administrator
for the UPHC.
“The reason we wanted to shop the mar-ket
was because it was time and we listened
to our students’ feedback about Anthem,”
DeFrancesco said. “Some students com-plained
that they didn’t feel that the cus-tomer
service was student-oriented.”
Aetna, Anthem and three other health in-surance
companies pitched their plans last
month to a student health advisory com-mittee
comprised of health administra-tion
officials, graduate and undergraduate
representatives and USC officials.
In the end, DeFrancesco said, Aetna’s
health insurance plan stood out as the best
option for students.
“One of the reasons I think they did so
well in the [bidding] process is that all the
customers are students, and that’s a big
change from Anthem,” DeFrancesco said.
While Anthem is a large health provid-er
for both individuals and groups — such
as universities — Aetna Student Health
USC planning to switch student health insurance providers
Beginning next year, USC’s student
health insurance will be offered through
Aetna rather than Anthem Blue Cross.
| see insurance, page 3 |
By paresh Dave
Daily Trojan
The university has decided to
reward its high-achieving students
the best way it knows how — by
letting them do more work in mul-tiple
fields of study.
The Academic Achievement
Award, introduced Sunday by the
Office of Undergraduate Programs,
allows students who have at least
a 3.75 grade point average and are
pursuing a double major or minor
to take up to 20 units for the price
of 18 units. Without the award, ev-ery
unit more than 18 costs $1,299 .
“The goal is to make it easier for
students with excellent academic
records to graduate with multiple
programs of study and still grad-uate
in four years,” said Gene
Bickers, vice provost of undergrad-uate
programs. “If they are capa-ble
of doing 20 units in a semester,
then we’ll make it possible without
an extra cost.”
In addition to holding a 3.75
GPA at the time they apply for the
award, students also must have
completed 32 units, including at
least 12 units at USC, and must be
able to demonstrate that taking
additional units would contribute
toward earning multiple degrees.
Students must also have de-clared
a double major, a double de-gree
or any form of a major-minor
combination by the time they sub-mit
their applications. The diver-sity
of the fields of study does not
matter.
Unlike the Renaissance
New tuition award aims to help high-achieving students
The university hopes the award
will encourage students to
pursue study in multiple areas.
| see award, page 11 |
By Natalie Chau
Daily Trojan
The USC College Republicans
hosted a panel discussion
Wednesday night focusing on
President Barack Obama’s poli-cies
and actions regarding the
U.S. economy, the recent health
care reform bill and the state of
the country’s foreign relation-ships.
USC College
Republicans
host teach-in
Three panelists discussed
President Obama’s policies in
hopes of spreading awareness.
| see panel, page 12 |
Academic Achievement
Award Qualifications
- Have declared double-major, double-degree
or major-minor
z =
- Prove that units will contribute toward
multiple degrees
- Have completed 32 units (at least 12 at USC)
- Have a 3.75 or higher USC
GPA
Lindsay Cumming | Daily Trojan

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 47 | Thursday April 1, 2010
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
14 · Classifieds
17 · Crossword
20 · Sports
Tryout: 15 USC football players
performed drills in front of NFL
scouts Wednesday. PAGE 20
Housing guide: Still need a place to live next
year? Check out the Daily Trojan’s housing guide for
answers to all your housing questions. PAGE S1
Speaking out
Members of USC’s MenCARE spoke about sexual violence at the Take Back the Night rally held on McCarthy Quad on Wednesday.
The event was aimed at spreading awareness of sexual violence and sexual assault. Various campus groups spoke during the event,
and the presentations were followed by a campus march. Wednesday’s rally was the highlight of a weeklong awareness campaign.
Sunil Murali | Daily Trojan
By jacqueline kurth
Daily Trojan
A program that many community college transfers
say was vital to their USC experience is now on the
chopping block, another victim of the tough economy.
For four years, the SCholars Program at USC has
helped bring community college transfers to the uni-versity
and integrate them into USC life. But the pro-gram’s
funding, which came from a $1 million grant
from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, has run dry.
Organizers searched extensively for a solution but
found only dead ends. Now, they have announced the
end of the SCholars Program.
“We have tried just about every angle and unfortu-nately,
because of the economy and other factors, we
will not be able to continue as of August 2010,” said Judi
Garbuio, associate dean of Academic Recognition and
Scholars Programs..
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation gave USC the grant
in 2006 to establish the SCholars Program. It was de-signed
to help first-generation and low-income stu-dents
transfer to a four-year university by providing
programs to introduce them to the curriculum, as well
as to pay for the additional academic costs of attend-ing
USC.
USC began looking for another source of funding
Money issues
force SCholars
program to fold
Those in charge of the program could not find
another source of funding to keep SCholars alive.
| see SCholars, page 6 |
By natalie chau
Daily Trojan
In an effort to increase efficiency and
cater health care more toward students,
USC has decided to switch its student
health insurance plan from Anthem Blue
Cross to Aetna Student Health insurance
beginning in the fall.
All students at USC are required to have
health insurance, but those who can show
proof they have other insurance do not
have to get insured through the university.
Student health insurance at USC is of-fered
through a third-party health in-surance
provider, and officials at the
University Park Health Center re-examine
the university’s health insurance plan ev-ery
five or six years, according to Cathy
DeFrancesco, senior clinical administrator
for the UPHC.
“The reason we wanted to shop the mar-ket
was because it was time and we listened
to our students’ feedback about Anthem,”
DeFrancesco said. “Some students com-plained
that they didn’t feel that the cus-tomer
service was student-oriented.”
Aetna, Anthem and three other health in-surance
companies pitched their plans last
month to a student health advisory com-mittee
comprised of health administra-tion
officials, graduate and undergraduate
representatives and USC officials.
In the end, DeFrancesco said, Aetna’s
health insurance plan stood out as the best
option for students.
“One of the reasons I think they did so
well in the [bidding] process is that all the
customers are students, and that’s a big
change from Anthem,” DeFrancesco said.
While Anthem is a large health provid-er
for both individuals and groups — such
as universities — Aetna Student Health
USC planning to switch student health insurance providers
Beginning next year, USC’s student
health insurance will be offered through
Aetna rather than Anthem Blue Cross.
| see insurance, page 3 |
By paresh Dave
Daily Trojan
The university has decided to
reward its high-achieving students
the best way it knows how — by
letting them do more work in mul-tiple
fields of study.
The Academic Achievement
Award, introduced Sunday by the
Office of Undergraduate Programs,
allows students who have at least
a 3.75 grade point average and are
pursuing a double major or minor
to take up to 20 units for the price
of 18 units. Without the award, ev-ery
unit more than 18 costs $1,299 .
“The goal is to make it easier for
students with excellent academic
records to graduate with multiple
programs of study and still grad-uate
in four years,” said Gene
Bickers, vice provost of undergrad-uate
programs. “If they are capa-ble
of doing 20 units in a semester,
then we’ll make it possible without
an extra cost.”
In addition to holding a 3.75
GPA at the time they apply for the
award, students also must have
completed 32 units, including at
least 12 units at USC, and must be
able to demonstrate that taking
additional units would contribute
toward earning multiple degrees.
Students must also have de-clared
a double major, a double de-gree
or any form of a major-minor
combination by the time they sub-mit
their applications. The diver-sity
of the fields of study does not
matter.
Unlike the Renaissance
New tuition award aims to help high-achieving students
The university hopes the award
will encourage students to
pursue study in multiple areas.
| see award, page 11 |
By Natalie Chau
Daily Trojan
The USC College Republicans
hosted a panel discussion
Wednesday night focusing on
President Barack Obama’s poli-cies
and actions regarding the
U.S. economy, the recent health
care reform bill and the state of
the country’s foreign relation-ships.
USC College
Republicans
host teach-in
Three panelists discussed
President Obama’s policies in
hopes of spreading awareness.
| see panel, page 12 |
Academic Achievement
Award Qualifications
- Have declared double-major, double-degree
or major-minor
z =
- Prove that units will contribute toward
multiple degrees
- Have completed 32 units (at least 12 at USC)
- Have a 3.75 or higher USC
GPA
Lindsay Cumming | Daily Trojan